Kirk's shooter, Tyler Robinson, has apparently turned himself in, apparently after confessing to his own father (?)

I've tried to capture the relevant bits of this extremely rapidly updating and currently in progress series of events.

9 a.m. EDT

While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”

Trump said authorities acted after receiving a tip from a minister who recognized the suspect from the images released by law enforcement.

The president said he believed the suspect’s father was also involved in arrest, but added that this information was still preliminary and the details could change.

9:15 a.m. EDT

Trump said he would attend a funeral next week for Kirk, “who should not be having a funeral right now,” when asked about his scheduled trip to the U.K. from Sept. 16-18.

9:30 a.m. EDT

The suspect was identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, from Utah, according to multiple reports citing people with knowledge of the investigation.

10:10 a.m. EDT

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed in a press conference Friday morning that a suspect named Tyler Robinson has been detained.

Apologies for this being a paywalled Forbes article.

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Hmm. He doesnt look like a Black Muslim Trans Gay Antifa

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We're very good st disguising ourselves

    Licks eyeballs

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you bring enough eyeballs for everyone to lick? If not, put them in the trash.

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  • Fun fact I had a teacher say this to me about my trail mix for while I was waiting to be picked up, I wasn't even in first grade or anything I think it was the grade before middle school. I threw a chair at her, got expelled, fuck that school and the a teacher.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    He could be antifa, or at least a radicalized nihilist with those sympathies. He did etch into his bullets a mix of furry memes and anti-fascist messaging.

    Or maybe he did this as part of a dollar store false flag operation, because he is a far-right extremist. We just don't have enough information to be certain, yet.

    I will say that he certainly fits the profile of a right ring terrorist: young, white male, Christian, proficient marksman, terminally online, and the son of a long time police officer.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The anti-fascist messages were quotes from video games (Helldivers and Far Cry), so maybe he means it or maybe just more memes, hard to say.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    He also quoted an old Italian anti-fascist song, Bella Ciao.

    Whether he's an anarchist, Marxist, or Nazi, it's clear he was terminally online and steeped in meme culture.

    Of course, that's about as helpful these days as saying someone uses dating apps.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Lol.

    The cucks over at /r/cuckservative started celebrating in a post when reports that the suspect was caught started coming in. Now that we know it was a law enforcement officer's kid raised in a MAGA family they're cannibalizing each other and there's a shit ton of deleted comments and crybabies refusing to accept reality, per usual.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Sorry I am now almost 3 years clean from reddit, you mean /r/conservative, or is there an actual /r/cuckservative, which is funny because of double meta irony or something?

    Either way, screencaps would be appreciated =D

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Pretty sure they're just referring to conservative, but man there really should be a cuckservative community.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I think there is a 'conservative' comm somewhere on lemmy... it was apparently orginally run genuienly... and then the mod quit... and then I think somebody else 'adopted' it... and then ran it as a parody.

    Onr could say interest in the community seems pretty dead, lost its lifeblood.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    EVERY. TIME. it's revealed that the shooter is MAGA it's always funny to stroll into /r/conservative or twitter or other places like and then watch the userbase go from cheering to proceeding to consume each others flesh. happens every time. A few start questioning their "faith" and which brings on others to begin to feast or start accusing people of being fake and then comments get deleted, threads get removed. every time.

    And each time none of them are capable of taking a step back and asking "are we the baddies?"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Well, 71% of political killings in the US comes from the right. 26% comes from Muslims. Only 3% comes from the left. Go figure.

    Yes, these are official US government figures. Taken down shortly after publication...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Pretty sure he's an undeclared voter that hasn't voted in the past two elections. I think his family is MAGA, but I don't actually think that means he leans MAGA. It could be that he finally reached a breaking point and flipped to the other side, I don't think we know.

    Edit: nvm, I was wrong.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No. He was spouting groyper memes.

    He’s a right-winger.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's groyper? Sorry for my ignorance.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While appearing on Fox and Friends, Trump said “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody.”

    In a country with a functioning justice system, that would have gotten the guy a mistrial at least. But we don’t have to worry about things like Law anymore, right Justice Boof?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    He hasn't even been arraigned yet. I'm sure his lawyers would bring this up. Luigi's lawyers did the same, as would any lawyer when their client is talked about on the news before a jury is selected.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Huh, you know there was a time where they didn't want to put the shooter's name in print and headlines after school shooting because they were worried about copycats. It was quickly abandoned because the Press are fucking monsters. I'm surprised they didn't go back to that logic today though.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Insane gun culture combined with religious indoctrination before kindergarten leads to child terrorists.. no one is shocked

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    The details of this are so stupid I don't want to believe it. I don't want to jump straight to conspiracies before I really know much either, but seriously?

    Maybe I just imagine political assassins to be more careful and intentional than they really are.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Assassinating someone means like a 99.99% chance of completely ruining your life and really fucking up the life of everyone you love. The truth is that almost nobody is noble and brave enough to do this just because they think it's for a good cause. Less than one in a million people have that kind of conviction, period, for any reason. Now how many of them have that kind of conviction for healthy well-adjusted reasons? I would bet almost none of them. There are like 50 roads to travel to end up as a political assassin. Half of them involve doing it for your job, like with the government assassinating its enemies. The other half involve you bring completely insane or delusional. There's literally like 1 road that is the road of just being so selflessly convicted in your beliefs that you are willing to ruin your entire existence for your cause (and this is regardless of whether your cause is actually good or not). I think this is why Luigi has stuck out as so powerful to people, because he may actually be a very very rare example of someone who derived their strong conviction without the aid of mental unwellness. (But even he got caught, so...) So yeah, I think most of the unpaid assassins are probably not mentally 100% solid lol. The fact is it is pretty much insane to decide to kill people, so it's pretty much insane people that are killing people.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    From what I am hearing from Kyle Kulinski...

    The kid is very academically bright, possibly autistic, obviously into online uwu meme culture... appears to be from a well-off Republican family, which involved a good deal of being raised with guns, definitely is not registered as a Democrat, may have himself donated to Trump's campaign, wore a Trump costume to a Halloween party... and also wrote Bella Ciao lyrics on a casing.

    So... I am going with 'very confused, nerdy, ancap kid with above average marksman skills for someone his age and no military training'.

    ... But thats all extremely speculative at this point.

    He appears to have literally done this for the lulz, and then become overwhelmed with guilt.

    I do not know what to make out of this other than our society is doomed.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I would be incredibly wary of any descriptions of his character or any details that aren't easily corroborated by trusted sources. There is a LOT of misinformation out there.

    https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jaemvpgujnb5nzi66rcxhse/post/3lynjvt3yyx2q is a good breakdown which is as cited as anything gets these days.

    Which lines up with what many others are saying: He is a "groyper" and seemed more alligned with the fuentes alt-right than the kirk alt-right and this seems like the sadly logical outcome of heavily armed children getting radicalized every second of the day.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I will literally go back and bold the part where I said 'this is all speculative.'

    I guess I trust Kyle when it comes to actually sourcing things.

    But yeah, lets get as much citations and context as possible, now that this is a few hours older and more is being written.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    People are deeply stupid. Even "This is pure speculation" rapidly becomes Fact through the game of telephone. It is best to avoid it as much as possible in situations like this. Even "he might have been autistic" very clearly lines up with certain fascist agendas.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I won't be surprised if he used fediverse/Lemmy do we know what his major is?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh god please don't say that, this reeeeally does not need to be the way normies learn about lemmy/fediverse oooh no.

    His major?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/09/12/what-we-know-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect/86091474007/

    In August 2020, Amber Robinson posted what appears to be an ACT college aptitude test score for Tyler – 34 out of 36 – that would place him in the top 1% of test takers, according to recent averages.

    Tyler wore a Trump-related Halloween costume in 2017, according to Amber’s social media.

    The eldest Robinson son graduated from Pine View High School in St. George in 2021, according to Amber Robinson's social media. The high school did not immediately respond to an inquiry from USA TODAY.

    Tyler is photographed at Utah State University and was offered an academic scholarship to attend the Logan, Utah-based university according to a letter he read aloud in a video posted to Amber’s social media.

    Utah State University said the suspected shooter "briefly attended Utah State University for one semester in 2021."

    He lived at home with his parents, according to neighbors who spoke with USA TODAY.

    Undetermined.

    He... seems like he dropped out, or more like bounced off of going to college... ???

    Yeah... certainly looking like some kind of perma online, basement dwelling, probably autisitc, uber dork.

    Which I say lovingly, in reference to most of us here.

    But yeah... If he bounced off after one semester, he would not have even gotten to declaring a major, I don't think.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh god please don't say that, this reeeeally does not need to be the way normies learn about lemmy/fediverse oooh no.

    R***it already did that, the antinatalist guy did it for the rest, so far.

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  • Doesn't look anything like him.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You know the likes of Facebook, X and LinkedIn like it because traffic explodes by people trying to see if they know the person, or know of people who know them, or any of their digital footprint.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Seeing it elsewhere online, but let's highlight it here. The Right has been trying to paint this shooting as a politically-motivated assassination caused by "transgender ideology" or whatever. Now that we have a clear and believable suspect, we know the truth: this was a young, white, cis male who was likely conservative, at least at some point in the recent past (there's photos of him wearing a Donald Trump costume for a past Halloween). We should be shouting from the rooftops that the Right lied about this, because, more than anything else, we want to tamp down political violence. These specific lies being peddled by the Right are with the aim of escalating political violence.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The right as a political machine didn't bat an eye when democratic government officials were assassinated. They also have completely ignored the facts of just about everything and inserted their own ideology or fantasy about what's true and what's not. What do you think "shouting from the rooftops" is going to accomplish here? This same nonsense has repeated itself multiple times with the attempted Trump assassinations and with other figures on the right. 99 times out of 100 it's a young straight white conservative male behind shootings, yet there is never introspection on this issue. I cannot imagine this will change the minds of any significant number of those on the right. As Kirk himself said, this is the price of business.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    They also have completely ignored the facts of just about everything and inserted their own ideology or fantasy about what’s true and what’s not. What do you think “shouting from the rooftops” is going to accomplish here?

    I think it's more about knowing what to say when this topic inevitably comes up in interpersonal conversation. It's not about convincing the conservatives, it's about convincing the centrists on the sidelines saying nothing. I think they are particularly sensitive to the argument that this was a politically-motivated assassination, and so it's important to remind those people that the right has blatantly lied about this. To remind them about the stats that you mentioned, that most of these shooters are conservative white males.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I can't find anything saying he was a republican. Every news outlets seems to be reporting that he was unregistered and hadn't voted in past elections.

    His parents are listed as Republicans.

    His parents mentioned they had a discussion with him days prior talking about kirk and how he spreads hate. He had expressed that he didn't like kirk.

    Again these are from major news outlets that were spinning kirk as not as bad in recent days so take it with a grain of salt until we hear more. It's possible that he had no political affiliation and just decided to act based on his personal beliefs

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    From Al Jazeera:

    Governor Cox told a news conference on Friday: “On the evening of September 11, a family member of Tyler Robinson contacted a family friend, who then informed the Washington County Sheriff’s Office that Robinson had either confessed to or implied that he had committed the incident.

    “This information was relayed to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office and investigators at Utah Valley University and conveyed to the FBI.”

    and

    Governor Cox said cryptic messages were engraved on shell casings recovered with the rifle, which he read out phonetically. Their meaning is not immediately clear.

    One spent shell case read: “Notices, bulges OWO what’s this?”

    Cox said three unfired shell cases read: “Hey fascist! Catch! Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols”, “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao, Ciao” and “If you read this, you are gay, LMAO”.

    So he's online a lot. There's the wikipedia article on the history of Bella Ciao.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So the LEOs trying to make it sound like the 3 down arrows were Iron Front were lying sacks of shit, no surprise there. Up Right Down Down Down is from Helldivers 2, for calling in a bomb airstrike.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How does one put money on a prisoners commissary ?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Its usually called an Individual in Custody Trust Account, and it varies from state to state and there's a different system for federal crimes.

    It seems like this is being prosecuted as a state crime, so you would go through the Utah Department of Corrections, usually with a money order. Follow the guidelines from the UDOC. Pay attention, if the case gets elevated to a federal crime, the procedure will change.


    (Edit) If you don't want to deal with the bureaucracy of the prison industrial complex, you can donate to an Anarchist Black Cross organization. On the 21st of this month, several are hosting a fundraiser called Running Down the Walls, and you can give money pretty anonymously and in-person.

    There's a good chance that Tyler will not be on their list depending on how his politics shake out, but you can be sure your money will go to someone in prison who would be happy to piss in Trump's breakfast cereal and who is not a white supremacist.

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